What would you do if your heartbeat sounded like Mars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets?

The driving, spikey rhythm of Mars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets is probably not the most comforting sound to hear through a stethoscope. A UK scientist, Elaine Chew is analysing the heartbeat patterns of people with arrhythmia – an irregular heartbeat – and turning them into classical music, in what she hopes may become an important diagnostic tool for doctors. Full story.

Angus McPherson (Limelight Magazine) / September 20, 2017

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